An evaluation of promising organizational practices was conducted by analyzing 27 Local Immigration Partnership strategic plans in detail. Statistical results indicate that three organizational practices were particularly important. These were: having a broadly based and inclusive LIP council; ensuring active municipal involvement throughout the planning process; and establishing municipal leadership in the form of the city [...]

This series of reports describes the priorities of the Ontario Local Immigration Partnerships as assessed through analyses of 27 LIP strategic plans available in early 2011, and through a subsequent survey if the coordinators for all 45 Ontario LIPs. Following a description of the priorities that emerged in each of seven domains, the reports describe [...]

Immigration is becoming increasingly important to small and medium sized cities to ensure social and economic growth. This reality will force urban centres to become more competitive in attracting and retaining newcomers to our communities. This paper presents a model whereby future immigration trends and retention rates of immigrants over time can be estimated. In [...]

This research explores attraction and retention patterns for immigrants locating to six Western Canadian cities between 1991-2000. Local contextual features for each city influence locational decisions and provide a preliminary analysis of gaps to be addressed in local planning and  policydecisions. The research explores how individual municipalities are responding to these issues and highlights the [...]

This paper assesses the scope and seeks to understand the causes of disparities in descriptive representation in municipal politics in some of Canada’s largest cities. It shows first that visible minorities are extremely under-represented in city councils in Ontario, relative to the representation of other groups at that level, and relative to minority representation in [...]

The original goals of this research project were to examine: How police services in small and medium sized cities in Ontario understand the challenges and opportunities newcomers pose for policing in their respective communities;  The extent to which newcomer issues, including perceptions and experiences of racism, have been incorporated into the policies and mission statements [...]

Recently there has been a growing awareness of the role played by discrimination in the provision of health care services to immigrant newcomers and refugees. Very little research, however, has explored how discrimination influences newcomers’ relationships with health care providers and the health care system in Ontario. This three-part study explores the impacts of discrimination [...]

This paper will broaden the scope of analysis to 15 second and third-tier municipalities situated in all corners of the province.  Through a series of 150 confidential interviews with opinion leaders from the governmental and non-governmental sectors, the study addresses four thematic lines of inquiry.  First, it explores perceptions about the interest levels of local [...]

Goal is to equip policy-makers, researchers, and organizations in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors with: a set of diagnostics for assessing levels of racism and discrimination practical tools that can be used to promote harmony and inclusion In support of this goal, an easily searchable inventory of information on diagnostics and tools that are [...]

This two-part, mixed methods study assessed attitudinal, policy, and practice barriers to health service utilization by immigrant parents from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean who are raising a disabled child or youth in the Greater Toronto or Hamilton areas. The project was based on a critical review of the literature on immigrant/refugee families raising a child [...]